Roger Ebert Tore Apart A Movie That Teamed Up Liam Neeson With Leonard Nimoy

Roger Ebert Tore Apart A Movie That Teamed Up Liam Neeson With Leonard Nimoy


With 1988's "The Good Mother," however, he was right on the money when he described the movie as having been "made with the best of intentions and the worst of screenplays." The odd little drama was directed by none other than Leonard Nimoy himself, who apparently wanted to subvert societal views on civil courts and sexual liberation, but ended up making a movie wherein Liam Neeson exposes himself to a little kid and he's somehow not the bad guy. He gave the film just a single star and took Nimoy to task for essentially making a movie without having a single clue as to what it was actually about.

Author: staff@slashfilm.com (Joe Roberts)


Published at: 2026-02-21 20:00:00

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